On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, David Herrmann wrote: > > > Until today all gamepad input drivers report their data differently. It is > > nearly impossible to write applications for more than one device in a > > generic way. Therefore, this patch introduces a uniform gamepad API which > > will be used for all new drivers. > > > > Instead of mapping buttons by their labels, we now map them by position. > > This allows applications to work with any gamepad regardless of the labels > > on the buttons. Furthermore, we standardize the ABS_* codes for analog > > triggers and sticks. > > > > For D-Pads the long overdue BTN_DPAD_* codes are introduced. They should > > be fairly obvious how to use. To avoid confusion, the action buttons now > > have BTN_EAST/SOUTH/WEST/NORTH aliases. > > > > Reported-by: Todd Showalter <t...@electronjump.com> > > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrm...@gmail.com> > > I definitely need to have Dmitry's Ack for this. If he's OK with 1/2, I am > fine with 2/2 patch for wiimote and will happily take it through my tree.
Dmitry, please? I'd like to avoid missing next merge window if you're ok with this. Thanks again, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
